How can Obama be "brilliant" or a "genius" when he's doing nothing but gathering the collective baggage from the Clinton Administration? The media talks about "star power"? Did they suddenly forget what made the Clinton Administration "star-studded"? It was the criminality, lies, corruption, and various public scandals that made it notorious.

And Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? Sure...does this really sound like a "brilliant" move and an indication that Obama will bring "change" to Washington:

A 30-Year Record of Hillary Clinton 

I'd like to know where the media's "brain-power" is. There seems to be a severe lack of intelligence plaguing the entire MSM and it's been that way for many, many years - with no hint of changing anytime soon. When will the largely ignorant and stupid public (that loves to vote Democrat) figure that out? 

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I went on a field trip to Googles news archives and dug out some NYT articles from 2000  Bush cabinet intros.  They are only a few that aren't pay-per-view.  The night/day difference was almost a breath of .. well it was air anyway.

I can only assume we're going to get the entire thesaural assault on the word 'brilliant'.

member of the Conservative Independant Witness Protection Program since Nov. 5, 2008

Wonder if a well-run campaign replete with bluster, BS, intimidation, voter fraud, campaign finance frawd, massive amounts of financing (seems like he's sticking with that general idea-lots of $ solves every thing) a fawning media and the ignorance of millions of voters is an indication of a successful presidency?

If he screws up, we'll hear little of it. They'll make it look like Richard Nixon's, Ronald Reagan's and/or both Bush's fault.

We can hope his ideology/ego will get the better of him. But, we're all on the same ship. We survived Clinton and Carter, but I'm not sure of this one. Even if everything is fine and dandy, I'll still view him as a charlatan. Clinton got lucky, and me thinks Senator Government has a high probability of the same.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Contemporary philosophy shows that if I say a statement is true, it only means that I agree with it. After all, how can you consider something true if you disagree with it?

In the same way, when I say a person is smart, it only means that he agrees with me on most things. After all, does anyone consider someone else smart who disbelieves everything I do?

When these "analysts" claim that the Obama team is smart, or even brilliant, all they're saying is that they think alike. It says as much about them as it says about Obama.

These people continue to embarass themselves.

How long before they run out of superlatives?

But it's more than love. I mean, it's the kind of love that anybody who's been a 9th-grade boy understands this species of love....[  ] .....it's red-in-the-face, I-think-about-you-when-I-go-to-bed, too embarrassed to stand up, it's sealed-with-a-kiss love. - Tucker Carlson

And regarding Chris Matthews' "blurted out"...it bears remembering that no one ever "blurts out" a lie.

Isn’t it ironic – no, just plain funny – how the MSM associates Obama with Lincoln and FDR – and who knows, maybe Einstein – and Carter with Gary Cooper in High Noon.  It is no wonder that compared to this idiocy of the liberals anybody, even Obama, would appear to be smart; next to the liberals anybody can be a genius.

More seriously though, for liberals the sole measure of human worth is “smarts,” which, buy the way, is actually just an MSM code word for indentifying how thoroughly the smart/moronic individual has bought into secularism/atheism/Darwinism/etc.  While the liberals’ labeling of people as smart or moronic is sometimes annoying for us conservatives / Christians, we have to realize what is behind all of this.   You see, liberals, along with declaring God dead, have also defined sin out of existence, at least as far as they are concerned.  This means – and I am not kidding – that they cannot use character, for example virtue or one’s integrity, as a measure of one’s value.  Thus “smartness” has become pretty much their primary way declaring approval.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Considering that 52.7% of the country got hoodwinked, I would consider Obama a "genius" in that respect.  He managed to snooker that many people into voting for someone with absolutely no credentials to be President.

I really wish he would lose that sign "Office of the President-Elect".  The office is not in the Constitution.  Every liberal keeps screaming how Bush rrampled on the Constitution, well Obama is by using that sign, don't you think?

Could you imagine the outcry from the MSM if Bush had used a sign like that in 2000?  (One thing I love to point out to liberals about Gore is he really would have been president if he carried his own home state of Tennessee.  I tell them look at the numbers and stop complaining about Florida.  Another side comment, notice libs don't complain now about doing away with the Electoral College all of a sudden?)

Liberal elites think that conservatives are gun-toting, Bible-thumping, beer swilling uneducated rednecks.  Liberals think that only Ivy-League educated (except Bush) need apply for the job of President, no matter how cloudy their past is and you have to talk smart, make sure you impose tax increases on the "super wealthy" (i.e. make over $250K, I mean $200K, no wait $150K, sorry $120K) cut taxes on people who don't pay any (how that works I don't know) and just talk "change" and everyone will fall head-over-heals in love with you.

It's scary, truly scary what over half this country bought into, but they will soon find out the hard way.

Tom

i have already read here in NB how people would be willing to see the country sink just to prove obama wrong. very sad

That's absurd.  It's the equivalent of everyone blaming 9/11 on President Bush because he was in office or that he orchestrated it.  

It's funny.  If Obama is so intelligent and graduated with honors at Harvard, why don't we hear about it?  I've read nothing, seen nothing about it.  He's a typical politician.  He's of average intelligence, it's very obvious.

My grades in school weren't that spectacular.  I had to work very hard to build my business from nothing.  But he has skated his way through everything.

Why did he pick Chicago?  Why not go back to Hawaii?  It was all calculated.  Politicians make calculated decisions.

One thing that's interesting and I believe BD made the point upstream:  Bill Clinton thought fighting the war on terror meant locking these guys up and throuwing away the key.  When they saw we were just going to do that, what happened?  Their attacks got more aggressive, bolder and 9/11 happened.  Many Islamic fundamentalists feared what we did next: military action.  Now we have them tied up over there.  While many people scream about Iraq and the illegality of it, where are we fighting the enemy, here or there?  If we run, they will attack again because it will be a sign of weakness.  Remember what happened to Libya after Reagan bombed them?  They didn't do a whole lot of sponsoring terrorist activities after that bombing.

 I would rather us be in Iraq and Afghanistan than these terrorist fighting us in the streets of DC, NY, Chicago and rural America.

 Tom